Luca Forgione - Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge

This book addresses the problem of self-knowledge in Kants philosophy. As Kant writes in his major works of the critical period, it is due to the simple and empty representation I think that the subjects capacity for self-consciousness enables the subject to represent its own mental dimension. This book articulates Kants theory of self-knowledge on the basis of the following three philosophical problems: (1) a semantic problem regarding the type of reference of the representation I; (2) an epistemic problem regarding the type of knowledge relative to the thinking subject produced by the representation I think; and (3) a strictly metaphysical problem regarding the features assigned to the thinking subjects nature. The author connects the relevant scholarly literature on Kant with contemporary debates on the huge philosophical field of self-knowledge. He develops a formal reading according to which the unity of self-consciousness does not presuppose the identity of a real subject, but a formal identity based on the representation I think.

Luca Forgione is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Language and in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Basilicata, Italy.

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Names: Forgione, Luca, 1973 author.

Title: Kant and the problem of self-knowledge / by Luca Forgione.

Description: 1 [edition]. | New York : Taylor & Francis, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century philosophy ; 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018039559 | ISBN 9781138385467 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Kant, Immanuel, 17241804. | Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Classification: LCC B2798 .F665 2018 | DDC 126.092dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039559

ISBN: 978-1-138-38546-7 (hbk)

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The majority of English language quotations from Kants works in this book are from The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, edited by P. Guyer and A. Wood (Cambridge University Press, 1992ff.). When a translation was not available, I provided my own. Apart from the references to the Critique of Pure Reason, all references to Kant are to the volume and pages of Kants gesammelte Schriften (KGS), herausgegeben von der Deutschen (formerly Koniglichen Preussischen) Akademie der Wissenschaften, 29 vols. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1902). References to the Critique of Pure Reason are to the standard A and B pagination of the first and second editions, respectively. Specific works cited are referred to by means of the abbreviations listed below. The translations used are also listed below and, with the exception of the Critique of Pure Reason, are referred to immediately following the reference to the volume and page of the German text.

A/B Kritik der reinen Vernunft [KrV] (KGS 34)

Critique of Pure Reason, ed. and trans. P. Guyer and A. Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Anth Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht (KGS 7)

Anthropology From a Pragmatic Point of View, ed. and trans. R. B. Louden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Anth-B Anthropology, History, and Education, ed. R. B. Louden and G. Zller, trans. M. Gregor, P. Guyer et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Br Kants Briefwechsel (KGS 1013)

Correspondence, ed. and trans. A. Zweig (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

FM Welches sind die wirklichen Fortschritte, die die Metaphysik seit Leibnitzens und Wolfs Zeiten in Deutschland gemacht hat? (KGS 20)

What Real Progress Has Metaphysics Made in Germany Since the Time of Leibniz and Wolff?, inTheoretical Philosophy After 1781, ed. H. Allison and P. Heath, trans. G. Hatfield, M. Friedman et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

KGS Kants Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Kniglich Preuischen, spter Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1900)

KU Kritik der Urteilskraft (KGS 5)

Critique of the Power of Judgment, ed. P. Guyer, trans. P. Guyer and E. Matthews (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

LBl B 12 Lose Bltter B 12 Critique of Pure Reason (KGS 23)

Notes and Fragments, ed. P. Guyer, trans. C. Bowman, P. Guyer, and F. Rauscher. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

LM Lectures on Metaphysics, ed. and trans. K. Ameriks and S. Naragon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Log Logik (KGS 9)

The Jsche Logic, inLectures on Logic, ed. and trans. M. Young, pp. 521640. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

MAN Metaphysische Anfangsgrnde der Naturwissenschaften (KGS 4)

Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, ed. and trans. M. Friedman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

OP Opus postumum (KGS 21 u. 22)

Opus Postumum, ed. and trans. E. Forster and M. Rosen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)

PhilEnz Philosophische Enzyklopdie (KGS 29)

Prol Prolegomena zu einer jeden knftigen Metaphysik (KGS 4)

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science